And sources further explained that James was “exhausted” after “going on 20-hour days four days in a row” to rehearse by flying back and forth from the East Coast.

And E! News also points out that his 127 Hour director, Danny Boyle, also had mistaken him as a stoner after he first met him!

“I wasn’t sure at first,” Danny said. “We met him and he was so relaxed — he looked stoned to me. People say that about him. But he’s not. In fact, he’s abstemious.” In other words, he abstains from liquor and/or drugs.